In 5-10 years, "No AI" or "Zero AI" will be a badge of honor for companies, like "eco-friendly" or "plastic-free" or "no GMO" is today. It’ll be a mark of distinction.
Incidentally, this is also why Japan invariably ranks near the bottom of any ranking of happiness or satisfaction with relationships, etc. -- the review scale just skews lower.
I am relieved to learn that President Trump is safe after the terrifying gunshots.
Violence can never be tolerated anywhere in the world.
トランプ大統領が、恐ろしい銃撃の後、ご無事だとの報に接し、安心しました。
暴力は、世界のいかなる場所でも、決して容認できません。
@POTUS@realDonaldTrump
if you cover Japan, you hear the established pundits here bemoaning the terrible state the nation is in, and how it's headed toward decline, which is interesting because overall Japan is in pretty good shape objectively and factually, compared to many other nations. if anything, it's possible the big unleashing of economic energy that comes from a transition from a controlled feudal society to a market economy, rewarding innovation, entrepreneurship and ventures, has yet to fully play out here. there will be social costs if this ever happens, and it might take years, if not decades, but that scenario is one possibility.
My only comment on the recent infighting on the American right, involving not only political actors but a number of Internet personalities I neither know nor care to know:
History records many cases in which cities fell to siege because, even with the enemy at the very gates, factions within the city could not put aside their mutual struggle for domination. In such cases, the consequences are typically catastrophic for all the defeated. The attitude of “let the city burn, so long as I can rule over the ashes” is idiotic; it is the enemy outside that will rule.
I don’t think political theorists and constitutional theorists have fully come to grips with this. From the 18th century onwards, England/Britain/the UK was long held up as the model of a liberal polity, the jewel in the liberal crown. Obviously various diagnoses are possible, but any account of liberalism that says nothing about the collapse of what was supposedly the best case and the central case isn’t worth listening to.
Good to see Judge Ho using “common sense” — or, as he also puts it, what a “reasonable policymaker” would do — as guides to the interpretation of statutory text. A breath of fresh air, redolent of the legal process approach to interpretation.
Nah, this old dodge doesn’t convince anyone anymore. There is no such distinction. The perpetual impetus to liberation from all unchosen constraints of tradition and nature; the march of “progress” towards the complete freedom of the will — these have always been at the heart of the liberal faith.